I couldnât be arsed reading all the replies in this thread but there you have it in a nutshell, youâve an event junkie like @Sid_Waddell talking out his hole about club games verses a lad whoâs involved with clubs putting him back in his box.County players love the split season along with the club player.And theyâre the most important people here.
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They arenât. There are a whole range of interests to be balanced. The most important thing is the place of the inter-county championships because they are the competions that has made the GAA what it is. You look for the solution that satisfies the most people and benefits the GAA as a whole, rather than harming it, as tge split season does.
Most pro-split season arguments Iâve seen are US Republican party like in their myopia. Itâs a terrible idea to push away floating support as much as you can and indeed insult anybody who disagrees with you and floating support, this should be obvious.
If you were starting the GAA from scratch now you wouldnât set up a provincial system. But the provincial system has been there for 130 years. That matters. The perfect is the enemy of the good, as they say. Or at least the search for perfect is. Youâve got to work with whatâs there and evolve it.
The last 16 round robin groups in the football are âfairâ, but yet theyâre not fair, because they load the dice in favour of those with strong panels. The âunfairâ knockout system was, in a way, fairer, because it was more democratic.
The argument was made ad nauseum by a particular poster that Kerry had an unfair advantage for years because they usually coasted through Munster, yet that same poster was unwilling to give up the Ulster Championship, because it has traditionally been a very exciting and fiercely competitive competition.
David Clifford and Stephen OâBrien hugely in favour of split season in interviews I read last weekend. OâBrien said it was great to see club players play in summer rather than starting in dark and dreary October.
Cian lynch too in the last fortnight is hugely in favour.Its a no brainer but event junkies who like their big shows donât like the move.The finals in September suited me much better too but itâs more important to keep the players happy.Ill get over it.
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Yes forgot about him too,but shure what would he know.
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They just donât get it fella
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Hardly anyone actually involved be they an elite inter county player or an ordinary club player has anything but praise for the current structure but we have a disproportionate cohort here of âexpertsâ here who claim itâs all wrong, majority of said posters I would safely say wouldnât kick snow off a rope or hit a sliotar out of a paper bag.
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As a club player, I hated the January training for those April games. At the same we need to put the all Ireland back a fortnight to extend the summer. Job done.
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The split season zealots are going to have some blood on their hands next summer when the whole Inter County season bombs out going head to head with Euro 2024 which takes place between June 14th and July 14th.
All-Ireland football final next year clashes with the opening weekend of the Olympics. 2026 All-Ireland hurling final would be on the same day as the World Cup final if current scheduling stands.
Name calling isnât an argument, itâs only demonstrating a lack of argument.
How long before All Ireland Semi Finals and Finals are relegated to GoGo TV?
When Big Evan Ferguson is leading the Boys in Green into the knockout stages of the Euros next summer, that will be that for the split season in its current guise.
June and July were always peak times for inter county championship.
If people want to watch Euro 2024 instead let them work away. People with a preference for GAA will attend and watch that.
Delusional stuff on a few levels there
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Theres a huge difference between a European Championship knockout tie clashing with a Leinster Football Semi Final in the old world like 2016, and clashing with All Ireland Hurling Semi Finals.
You keep displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of how spectator sports work.
Customer is king.
If you asked any player in the Premier League if theyâd prefer a 34 or 30 game season theyâd very likely say yes. But that doesnât mean they should get it.
Ask any player on a mid ranking international team if theyâd prefer a 48 team World Cup or a 32 team World Cup, theyâll say 48, because theyâve a much better chance of playing in it.
But that doesnât mean they should have got it, because we all know a 48 team World Cup will be shit.
No offence to players but most have sod all real understanding of the real issues here.
Pointing to players is like saying a load of people vote for Trump and therefore they canât be wrong, rather than dealing with the reality that these voters are brainwashed morons.
Your mistake is looking at it solely through the lens of television viewing figures.